r/videos May 30 '17

This guy's presentation on ADHD is excellent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JowPOqRmxNs
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u/pawsitively May 30 '17

Bullet points are our friend

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u/Fluix May 30 '17

OMG I just realised why I gravitate towards bullet points so much when texting anything lengthy.

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u/incindia May 30 '17 edited May 31 '17

This is why i force people to break things into paragraphs if they want me to actually read it

Obligatory Gold Edit: It only took 4.75 years for a guilded comment!! Thanks /u/bboyjkang !!

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u/bboyjkang May 31 '17

Breakup Chrome extension

Breaks up walls of text into readable paragraphs, applies a different font and colouring.

Breakup is a simple Chrome extension that attempts to reformat text elements on webpages so they are more readable.

To use the extension, right click on an element and select "Break up text" from the context menu.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/breakup/janccjlmbelkhnffmbfimnklelkdfcoh?hl=en-GB

Sentence segmenter

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sentence-segmenter/jfbhkblbhhigbgdnijncccdndhbflcha

https://github.com/AhmadHassanAwan/Sentence-Segmentation

It temporarily puts each sentence on a new line, and all sentence starts are on the left side.

It can give you a better view of the length of sentences in your peripheral so you can pace your reading (and breathing).

Without using an extension:

Replace every "period space" with "period newline/paragraph break".

Microsoft Word replace

 . 

.^p

or

Notepad++

 . 

.\n

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u/incindia May 31 '17

Whoaaaaaaa wtf thats amazing. Anything for android os?

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u/bboyjkang May 31 '17

Unfortunately, I haven't found something as seamless as those Chrome extensions.

If I want segmented text to be viewed on my tablet on phone, I use:

  1. Ditto clipboard manager to gather a bunch of text with repeated Ctrl+Cs

  2. Paste it all in Microsoft Word

  3. Replace every "period space" with "period newline/paragraph break"

  4. Save as PDF

  5. Upload to Google Drive

  6. Open with the Moon+ Reader PDF-reader app

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u/incindia May 31 '17

God youre like a ADHD sensei

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u/bboyjkang May 31 '17

I doubt I have any kind of ADHD, but I'm not a good reader.

I commissioned someone on Fiverr to create that sentence segmentation extension.

Hope that it can help others.

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u/incindia May 31 '17

It's amazing what some people will do for $5